E283 – Inner Voice – a Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan.  In this episode, Dr. Foojan Chats with Dr. Janet Afary. She holds the Mellichamp Chair in Global Religion & Modernity at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is a Professor of Religious Studies. She is a historian of modern Iran with a Ph.D. in History and Near East Studies from the University of Michigan, where her dissertation received the Distinguished Rackham Dissertation Award. Previously she taught at the Department of History and the Program in Women’s Studies at Purdue University, where she was appointed a University Faculty Scholar.

Her books include Sexual Politics in Modern Iran; The Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism; Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism; Charand-o Parand: Revolutionary Satire in Iran.  And her latest book is based on a large study, Iranian Romance in the Digital Age: From Arranged Marriage to While Marriage – Sex, Family and Culture in the Middle East.  Her articles have appeared in The Nation, The Guardian, Huffington Post, and numerous other scholarly journals and edited collections. www.janetafary.com

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